Jan 26 2022 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Agriculture got some attention at an international trade ministers meeting, Ottawa-Two late January meetings have shown both the progress and the long road ahead to achieve a strengthening of the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that was launched almost four areas ago. That’s when Canada joined by Australia, Brazil, Chile, the European […]
Jan 13 2022 — Ashley Burke — CBC — Canada is joining Mexico’s official complaint today requesting a dispute settlement panel over claims the U.S. is violating the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, the new NAFTA, by insisting on a stricter way of interpreting a key provision around auto parts. Motor vehicles are the top manufactured trade product between the three countries. Canada argues that […]
Jan 11 2022 — Katie Simpson — CBC — Canadian and U.S. officials are scheduled to meet this week to see if progress can be made to end a dispute that resulted in Canada suspending all shipments of potatoes from Prince Edward Island to the United States. Officials from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will have a virtual conversation with their U.S. counterparts […]
Jan 7 2022 — Financial Post — A wider world of American cheese could soon be available in Canadian dairy aisles following the federal government’s defeat this week in a high-profile trade dispute, according to the International Cheese Council of Canada, an Ottawa-based body of importers.
Jan 4 2022 — The Canadian Press — Arbitrators have issued their final report into U.S. complaints about how Canada is interpreting North American trade rules around dairy imports — and both countries are claiming victory. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai formally requested a dispute settlement panel last May to examine allegations from American producers that Canada is denying them fair access to […]
Jan 4 2022 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — Canada has lost its first dispute case under the new North American trade agreement to the United States, with a panel agreeing that Ottawa flouted part of its obligation to open the dairy market. The three-member panel — made up of a Uruguayan diplomat who was once ambassador to Canada, a Canadian trade lawyer based […]
Dec 20 2021 — Neil Moss — Hill Times — A multitude of trade irritants and soon-to-start trade negotiations has left the House Committee on International Trade, which has had one meeting in the six months, with much on its docket while it breaks for Parliament’s winter break. The committee met for the first time in the 44th Parliament on Dec. 13—the first meeting since […]
Dec 16 2021 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — Here’s a blunt reply from one U.S. senator when asked about an extraordinary threat-filled letter from the Canadian government. “I don’t care,” Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, told CBC News on his way into the Senate chamber on Wednesday. Canada’s letter threatened to apply tariffs and suspend bits of the USMCA trade deal if […]
Dec 3 2021 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s international trade minister is wrapping up her latest official visit to the U.S. capital — her second since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the White House last month. Mary Ng led a multipartisan Team Canada mission to Capitol Hill for several days of meetings with U.S. lawmakers to talk about a number of […]
Nov 29 2021 — Stephen Wicary — Bloomberg — Justin Trudeau appears set to add another item to his government’s growing list of trade grievances with Joe Biden’s administration. Canada is leaning toward forming a common front with Mexico in a fight with the U.S. over how to interpret rules governing the origin of vehicle parts. The rules, which are part of the North […]
Nov 18 2021 — CBC — United States President Joe Biden said today that Canada and the U.S. are united in their efforts to fight global warming and offered his sympathies to Canadians affected by flooding and landslides in B.C. — a disaster experts have linked to climate change. Biden made the remarks at the White House ahead of his bilateral […]
Oct 23 2021 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — An emerging trade irritant between Canada and the United States that had been quietly simmering for months has now bubbled into the open. The Canadian government sent a letter to nearly a dozen senior U.S. officials Friday expressing dismay over an idea being considered in a key American budget bill. As reported last week by […]
Aug 3 2021 — CBC — The minister responsible for international trade says Canada is well-positioned and ready to push back against a proposed massive new infrastructure bill that strengthens U.S. President Joe Biden’s Buy American pledge. The U.S. Senate on Monday began debating the $1 trillion USD spending plan, which promises historic investments in everything from the nation’s railways to […]
Jun 21 2021 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Biden needs to press for international trade reform. Ottawa—Buy America and other protection measures being considered in Washington pose a threat to Canadian farmers who export to the U.S., says Dave Carey, Vice-President of Government and Industry Relations for the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). Canadian agriculture is heavily export oriented and that makes […]
May 28 2021 — The Canadian Press — Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan says Canada is trying to reach a new deal with the United States over softwood lumber, but it’s the Americans who are “not willing to reach an agreement.” O’Regan was pressed during a parliamentary committee appearance today about the status of negotiations, and what the Liberal government was doing to […]